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lol, THIS should cook some of your nuts

Ok hope this Link works for all. I was surfing around and came across an Install to your desktop Link to the Ford SVT site.
 
There I found this Link..
 
http://www.svt.ford.com/default.asp?directPath=gallery
 
This is some Videos.. Play the second Video and it's a History of Shelby and Ford... about halfway through Edsel B. Ford II says
 
"Then we went into the eighty's and we were stuck with , ahhh, incredibly boring cars..."
 
Right at that exact moment the Video jumps to ...
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lol, THIS should cook some of your nuts

Reply #1
83 TC I would assume. NICE find man. Kudos

lol, THIS should cook some of your nuts

Reply #2
I like how they showed a gremlin a couple seconds later. lol
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Reply #3
I also believe the brainstorming sessions for the aerobird they had a meeting in which someone says.  Here's the the current thunderbird, would any of you be proud to have this in your driveway?  no hands went up.  Ok then lets do something about it.

Perhaps that was what they were talking about?

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Reply #4
I survived the 80's and all I got was this lousy escort.
1987 TC


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Reply #6
Quote from: 88turbo;162587
ahhh grrrr a TC boring? yeah um no

lol
 
Ummm, I belive the actual quote was "incredibly boring"
 
and I did see that gremlin... maybe they used that to [FONT='Times New Roman']emphasize [/FONT]"incredibly boring"
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Reply #7
I'm still waiting for the 40th Anniversary Cougar - jackasses.
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Reply #8
By modern standards everything made in the 80's was boring. Modern family sedans are faster and more powerful, and handle and drive better than Mustangs, Camaros, Firebirds, and even Corvettes from back then. I recently read a magazine article about the new Nissan Altima Coupe that'll do the 1/4 in the high 13's - a six cylinder mainstream FWD puppiesanese coupe that does 13's! And not even marketed as a "sporty" car!

I think the SVT guys weren't dissing T-Birds in particular, they were dissing the 80's in general. And they were right. From a performance standpoint the 70's and 80's flat out sucked, and since SVT was all about performance the 80's were all about sucking.
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Reply #9
i think nissan made the maxima's even faster too, id have too check, i dont really keep up with fwd cars.

I still dont know, the aerobirds were a test bed for all the "cool new electronic" of the time.  Even today some ppl get excited to see the gagetyiness of those cars... and everyone use to them just gets annoyed but how dim the lighting is in the daytime.

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Reply #10
I actually like the fact that most people think of these cars as mundane.  It makes parts cheaper.  On the negative it makes people more apt to junk them as well so it's a toss up.
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